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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Climate: Past, Present & Future

A glimpse into the INTIMATE’s summer school of 2022

November 21, 2022
A glimpse into the INTIMATE’s summer school of 2022
Group photo of the INTIMATE summer school 2022 at Kokkila. Photo Credit: Francesco Muschitiello.

The Earth’s climate has been rapidly changing in the last decades. That’s a fact! Virtually, every one of us has been experiencing those changes in person, but how do we know that Earth’s climate has changed in the past beyond the instrumental data of the last ~200 years? From ancient manuscripts to geologic records, there are many “archives” one might consider “reading” to infer or reconstruct pa ...[Read More]

Communicating climate change

and November 15, 2022
Communicating climate change

Both the uncertainty inherent in scientific data, and the background and ethics of the communicators who report such data to any given audience, can sow doubt about the science of climate change. The perception of this duality is engrained in how the human mind works, whereby we tolerate lies but are always ready to condemn hypocrisy. We illustrate this through a personal experience that is connec ...[Read More]

Simple is good: How we understand climate using idealised models

, and September 18, 2022
Simple is good: How we understand climate using idealised models
The first satellite image was from the ESA-MSG-4 geostationary weather satellite (link). Second image is from Earth.nullschool, showing a forecast for the earth's wind at 250hPa (link). The last image shows fictional results of a simplified qg like model, image is photoshopped from the gqs model outputs. The figure was designed by Oisin Hamilton.

Do you gravitate to science because of the subject’s ability to explain complicated behaviour in nature through experimentation? When we see things or get our hands dirty by conducting experiments, it helps us comprehend scientific theories which are harder to explain. Introducing a complicated scientific theory is often carried out initially by presenting a simplified version.  For example, stude ...[Read More]

EGU Climate Division presents: Outreach Team 2022 edition

August 16, 2022

European Geoscience Union (EGU) is an organisation made of different disciplines in geosciences, and each disciplines have their own Division. Within each Division, there are many different volunteered positions. Each year at the EGU General Assembly (a conference), Division members come together to nominate members for those positions. There are variety of positions from President and Deputy Pres ...[Read More]